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Human Nature Quotes

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  • A father is a banker provided by nature.~ French Proverb
  • All men by nature desire to know.~ Aristotle
  • A man is related to all nature.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art is man’s nature: Nature is God’s art.~ Philip James Bailey
  • Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.~ Chinese Proverb
  • I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.~ Bob Dylan
  • If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.~ Storm Jameson
  • If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.~ Bhagavad Gita
  • It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us truer and more perfect views than art could possibly make.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  • It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly~ Anatole France
  • Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  • Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.~ Gil Stern
  • Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.~ Jacob Bronowski
  • Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.~ Joseph Addison
  • Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without~ Confucius
  • Nature’s law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.~ Luther Burbank
  • Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.~ Bulgarian Proverb
  • Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.~ Lorraine Anderson
  • Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.~ Greek Proverb
  • Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.~ Anatole France
  • Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.~ Eric Hoffer
  • Nature is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.~ Charles Baudelaire
  • Nature is not human hearted.~ Lao-Tzu
  • Nature is the art of God.~ Sir Thomas Browne
  • Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature provides exceptions to every rule.~ Margaret Witter Fuller
  • Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.~ Luigi Pirandello
  • Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.~ Leonardo Da Vinci
  • One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.~ Dale Carnegie
  • Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.~ Blaise Pascal
  • Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.~ Virginia Woolf
  • Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.~ German Proverb
  • Sympathy with nature is part of a good person’s religion.~ Francis Herbert Hedge
  • The house roof fights the rain, but the person who is sheltered ignores it.~ African Proverb
  • The person in a hurry usually arrives late.~ Georgian Proverb
  • The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.~ Guillaume Apollinaire
  • There is a great deal of human nature in man.~ Charles Kingsley
  • We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • When a man moves from nature, his heart becomes hard.~ Native American Proverb
  • Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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